Newcastle Linked With Top Young Lyon Defender

News in the Daily Mail today that the Newcastle scouting is picking up for the summer transfer market, and Chief Scout Graham Carr has checked on one of Lyon’s best young players.

Samuel Umtiti – 19 year-old Lyon defender It seems that 19-year-old left-back Samuel Umtiti, the French U20 International, could be in Newcastle’s sights this summer.

Sanuel can play either in central defense or at left back, and the Cameroon born player has played at the French U17, U18, U19 and U20 levels.

He joined Lyon back in 2001 and finally made his debut in January of last year in a 3–0 win against Lyon Duchère when he played the whole game, and since then he has played 38 times with two goals for the French side.

Carr was at the game to watch the versatile defender represent France U20s’ in their 3-1 win over Denmark last Thursday in France.

It seems that Newcastle will be bringing in a a number of players in their late teens and early twenties in the summer – and it would seem that the 5’11” tall youngster could be a target.

Newcastle brought in 20 year-old Massadio Haidara from Nancy in January, and the lad looks like a top player in the making, and Newcastle will try to bring in players of around the same age and ability this summer.

Ricky van Wolfswinkel is widely reported here in Holland as having signed a four year contract for Norwich, Kudos for Norwich!

But, Arnhem Vitesse are reported as having had no approach from West Ham as far as regards a 14 / 15 Mil offer to sign Wilfred Boney from them ! There is then no substance in the stories in The Mirror, Sun and Daily Express who are apparantly stating this this morning in their papers ?

Toon – prodigy – i thought about this and my solution is that every now and we should send Carr to scout someone terrible we have no intrest in signing and then when someone else gets them its no biggy. A tactical red herring 😉 haha

Bloody boring these international breaks – nowt to get your teeth into. Think I’ll put some money on the Toon at Man Shitty got a get a result sometime at the Etihad 9-1the Win 9-2 the draw Hedge my bets a few quid on both

Nufc leazes @5 – not bad but its ‘Chateauneuf’ thought I would just mark you down on that for the exam 🙂

Sorry to open old wounds but is Carl the same as Pushy Pardew? He has the same style and both are pretty good on their spelling but they also say when they are leaving the blog that they are ‘owt’ and not ‘out’. 😐

Thanks for that Newexpat I saw a homage of his goals and he looks the business. Obviously you live in Holland so what are your thoughts as you will have better information than most. We certainly me anyway.

by no means take this the wrong way as santon is a bloody great player and not that bad defensively as some would make out ! but i really do like hairdryer better and santon will want 1st team now esp since being linked with ac so if we can get more £ than realistically he’s worth imo 10mil then i would not be sad at taking it bearing in mind how much dummet has come along also and looks like getting a new contract.

“I had a dream” Three Purple players and a rerun at 4th – a cup final – a passing, penetrative, consistent team a danger away. “I had a dream” Campbell breaking through, a teen sensation, four options upfront, a maddening midfield and finally a rock at the back. My “I had a dream” had a Viera in the background showing that superstar still plays for the club even in retirement. Ultimately a summer where we bought Lescott, Siem De Jong, and outrageously Javier Harnandez. We also picked up Sissohko for free and had Ben Arfa free of injury for a season. “I have a dream”.

We need more scouts. Ones that look at Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Belgium etc and it wouldn’t hurt to look at the Championship once in a while. Also need new coaches, none of our youth players ever develop.

A lot of people here, including me, are expecting him to be moving to one of the top clubs in Germany?

It is generally accepted at Vitesse that he will be leaving them come the end of the season. He is top scorer in Holland this year and is worth at least 10 Mil of any clubs money? He won,t move cheaply to any club and will demand a top salary where ever he goes.

I would prefer us to get Wijnaldum from PSV and Stefan de Vrij from Feyenoord Rotterdam. I am disappointed we let Norwich get van Wolfswinkel as the Canaries have got themselves a bargain there?

I think i know what Pardew’s might plan will be. He will offload Jonas or keep his as a benchwarmer, meaning he will push santon to the left midfield. And bringin haidara in on the left back. Seems like a good plan because santon can attack better than he can defend. HTL!!

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